Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44830, Jedidiah Fox, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Fox Jedidiah or Jedediah
S. 44830
CONTENTS

3489.
New York Roll
Jedediah Fox Capt Troop Sergeant Connecticut Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th of Oct r 1818 and sent to S r L. Ford Agent Herkimer New York
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 39.73 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th Mar 1819 48.00
Arrears 4 Mo 29/30 $87.73
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
2 Years
Burville
Continued
German Flats Herkimer Co. N.Y.

Certification sent to Aaron. Mackay Jr Esq 26 Sept 1820
Herkimer, N.Y.

Isaac T. Jones
Hoboken N. York
August 1841
Admitted
Please make return to S. G.
L. H. a. Hoboken - N. York

I Geddieh Fox of the town of Germanflats in the county of Herkim and State of New York do according to the act of the Congress of the United States of America entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War make the following Declaration under Oath that is to say - I do solemnly declare that I am a resident citizen of the United States to wit in the town county and State aforesaid and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for Support - I do further declare that I was a private Soldier in the war of the Revolution and that I served as such in the said War of the revolution against the Common Enemy for the Term of fourteen Months - that I belonged to Captain Benjamin Frops Company of Infantry in Colonel Burrods Regiment in the Connecticut Line - that I enlisted on or about the fifteenth day of December one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy five in the service for the term of one year and immediately entered the service in the Army against the Common Enemy and continued there in till the fifteenth day of February one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Seven on or about which day I was honorably discharged by the Commanding officer of the Post at Fort Independence in the State of Vermont where I was then stationed other wise called Mount Independence - That I have by accident lost my said discharge and cannot now find the same - and I do further swear that the

1 Nathaniel Paul Brien was the Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment to which I belonged - that he commanded at Mount Independence in the State of Vermont and that whilst there under his Command I received from him the Serjeants Warrant which is hereunto annexed and that I actually served as a Serjeant till I was discharged under the said Warrant - And I do further declare that I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States or of any Individual State - Witness my hand this Sixth day of April AD 1818
I sworn to and subscribed before me this 6 th day of April 1818 -
David Root
Judge of Probate Court, Poughkeepsie
Isedichah Fox
State of New York Hutchinson County ss. Eaton Burrill being duly sworn deposes and saith that he is well acquainted with Isedichah Fox in the foregoing official named and well knows his circumstances and that he fully believes that the said Fox is in very reduced circumstances and in actual need of assistance from his country for support and that this Deponent has always understood that the said Fox was a private soldier in the Army of the United States in the War of the Revolution and actually served as such against the Common Enemy -
I sworn to this 14 th day of April 1818 before me
David Root
Judge of Probate Court, Poughkeepsie
Eaton Burrill

State of New York Herkimer County ss: Be it remembered that on the sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen at the town of Herkimer in the County of Herkimer and State of New York before me David Holt Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Herkimer in said State duly appointed qualified and sworn (the said court being one of the courts of Record of the State of New York) personally came and appeared the before named Icheliah Fox whom I actually know and who resides in the town and county stated in his said Declaration and in my presence subscribed the foregoing Declaration and also before me then and there he was duly sworn to the truth of the facts contained and set forth in the said Declaration - and at the same time also appeared before me Eaton Burrell whom I know and made solemn oath to the several facts stated and set forth in the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed - And it appearing to my satisfaction as well from the said Declaration under oath as from the other evidence which is hereby certified that the said applicant served in the Revolutionary War as aforesaid against the common Enemy and that the Declaration aforesaid under oath of the said applicant is in all respects true I do therefore certify and transmit the testimony in the case and the proceedings had thereon to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War according to the requisitions of the act of Congress in that case made - Given under my hand & seal at Herkimer in the State of New York the day and year first above written -
David Holt

State of New York Herkimer County ss:
I Walter Fish Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Herkimer and State of New York do hereby certify and make known that David Holt Esquire whose signature is affixed to the within Certificate and affidavits is one of the Judges of the said court duly commissioned qualified and sworn and that his signatures to the said Certificate and affidavits are in his own proper hand writing and that the said Court is one of the Courts of Record of the State of New York
Given under my hand and the Seal of the said Court at Herkimer this 16 th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen —
Walter Fish Clerk

not found on the Connecticut rolls
Further proof is ne- cessary of his having served the 9 months required by law in the Continental army
This proof should be the evidence of some state authority
returned to Messrs G & Lord to be con- -formed to the law
Respectfully, for Geo. V. Board Ira D. Elk
War Dept
Pens. off. 8 May 1818

State of New York
Otsego County 3 d ss. Jacob M. Fox being duly sworn saith that he is twenty four years of age - That in the year 1775 he this Respondent was an Ensign in a Company commanded by Captain Benjamin Troup, in a Regiment of Infantry commanded by Col. Burill in the Continental Line on the continental establishment - That on or about the fifteenth day of December in said year Jacob M. Fox, whom petition is annexed to this Affidavit, enlisted under this Respondent as a private soldier in said Company for the term of one year - That said Jacob M. Fox continued to serve in said Company as a Soldier until in the month of February one thousand seven hundred eighty seven - That the said Jacob M. Fox left the said Regiment at about Independence in the State of Vermont - That during the time that the said Jacob M. Fox belonged to said Company he marched with the Company into the Province of Canada & proceeded to the vicinity of Quebec for the purpose of joining the army under General Montgomery - and further saith not
Jacob M. Fox
Sworn and. Subscribed
Before me this 6 th Day of August 1814 John Russell Judge of Oresgo Com. pleas. Silas Crippen one of the Commissioners in and for the County of Oresgo and State of New York to take Affidavit

State of New York Otsego County } ss. I
George Morell — Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that John Russell — who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit of David M. Fox is a Judge of said Court duly qualified according to law. This his name is affixed to said affidavit in his own proper hand writing. That said Court is one of the Courts of Record of the State of New York. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & recurred & affixed the seal of my said office at the village of Cooperstown in the said County of Otsego this sixth day of August 1878
Y. W. Webb Deputy Clerk

State of New York
Herkimer County } ss
I, Benoni Congdon, of the Town of German Flatts in said County being duly sworn with that he is now fifty eight years of age - That he is well acquainted with Lordiah Fox whom Affiant is sure and has known him since the year 1775 That at the commencement of the Revolutionary War, this Respondent resided in the same neighborhood with the said Lordiah in the Town of Boynah in the State of Connecticut - That this Respondent well recollects that the said Lordiah enlisted into the Continental Army in the winter season, either in the month of December or January, but this Respondent does not recollect the year and that the said Lordiah shortly after proceeded to join the Northern Army then engaged in an Expedition against the Province of Canada and that the said Lordiah continued in the Army until sometime in the next winter after such enlistment - when he returned home to the said Town of Boynah - That this Respondent recollects that soon after said enlistment a Mother of this Respondent enlisted at the same time with said Lordiah & went off with him to join the Army where he and the said Lordiah on his return from the Army went back to the family of this Respondent the effect that this Respondent's brother left when he did or otherwise - and this Respondent further says that he at that time knew David Fox and that he was an Ensign in the Company of Capt. Root in which Company said Lordiah enlisted - his
Subscribed Benoni Congdon Mark David Root, Judge of Herkimer Co. Pleas

Reddish Fox Certificate of Exemplification
No 12
8/
J. M. Black
3489
/9 Oct 1888
Mar 19

Schedule
State of New York } Herkimer County }
on this Fourth day of July 1820 personally appeared in Open Court to Wit the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County said Court being by the laws of the State of New York constituted a court of Record Judiah Fox aged sixty eight years Resident in the town of Germanflats in said County who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows viz That I enlisted in January 1775 as a private in Captain Benjamin Shroops company in Col. Charles Burrells regiment in the connecti- cut line and served in said company and regiment until February 1777 when I was honorably discharged at Mount Independence in Vermont my time of service viz one year having expired That the date of my Original Declaration is April 5 th 1818 and the number of my Pension Certificate is 3,187— And I do Solemnly Swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by Gift Sale or in any manner disposed of my proper- ty or any part thereof with Intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War Passed on the Eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or Security Contracts or debts due to me nor have I any Income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed to wit a silver watch worth $10.00, a saddle worth $7.00 one pair of spectacles and one razor both worth $1.00 and one old gun $3, one pair saddle bags $2, That I have no mechanical occupation and am unable to perform much labor I have no family excepting my wife who is 70 years old and insane and lately unable to support herself both myself & wife reside with my son who stands obligated to support his mother in consideration that the said Judiah conveyed

to my said Son 5 or 6 years ago all my estate There is due to me twenty Dollars and about 5 years interest upon a note given by Joshua Nobles who has absconded to parts to me unknown and the debts due & owing from me amount to more than fifty Dollars Judicial Tax Sworn to & Hand Declared on the 11 th day of July 1820 before D Scott Judge of Herkimer County Court of Common Pleas the court is of opinion that the value of the property enumerated in the foregoing Schedule is twenty three Dollars D Scott
State of New York
John J. Brinsergast Judges
Clerk's Office
George Rosegrants
Herkimer County
D. Walter Fish Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for the county aforesaid do certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and forty twenty three Dollars In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 13 th day of July 1820
Walter Fish Clerk of the Court for the County of Herkimer

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Jedediah Fox a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. file 44830
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Dec. 15, 1775 Pri. Benjamin Throop Chas Burrall Conn.   Dec. - 1776 to Feb. 15, 1777 Sergt. 5 th Co.   disch at Mount Independence H.   Ex to Canada -  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Berrien, Conn.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 6, 1818.  Allowed.
Residence at date of application, Germanflats, Herkimer Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application, 68 in 1820 w/ wife - at 70 w/ son
Remarks: _____
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Nathaniel Buell L t Colonel & Commander of a Battalion of the Continental Army In the Northern Department
To Judith Fox Greeting
By virtue of the power and authority to me given by the States of America I do Appoint you Judith Fox to be Sergeant in the 5 th Company in 1 st Battalion And you are to obey the commands of your Superior officers according to the Rules and Discipline of War and This shall be your Sufficient Warrant Given under my hand and Seal at Mount Independence This Day of November 1776
Nathaniel Buell L t C o

44830-7
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203 W. Liberty St., Rome, N.Y.
Jan. 14- '96.
Gentlemen:-
Will you be kind enough to give me a complete record of service of Jedediah Fox a Revolutionary soldier and greatly oblige.
Respectfully yours,
Marian Darrow.

44 830 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 44830
Jedediah Lox
Sergt. Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 175 c
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Feb. 8, 1896. Mil. Hester to Miss Marion Darrow Rose, N.Y.
1912 May 8, Hist. to Capt. S. M. Fox letter in Jacob Fox S. 44829. C Jacob Meloy Fox